Yeah, Caterham do that because the first F1 team to unveil their car will get a boost in publicity, but if they waited until after one of the big teams no one would be interested.

Although, I fully expect everyone apart from McLaren and Ferrari will do web only unveilings or unveil them at the first test. The days of the teams launching their cars by shutting down a whole city centre at night and getting the cars to do laps under flood lights has long since passed.

Yeah, Caterham do that because the first F1 team to unveil their car will get a boost in publicity, but if they waited until after one of the big teams no one would be interested.

Although, I fully expect everyone apart from McLaren and Ferrari will do web only unveilings or unveil them at the first test. The days of the teams launching their cars by shutting down a whole city centre at night and getting the cars to do laps under flood lights has long since passed.

Remember the Spice Girls helping launch McLaren's 1997 car?

I also remember the lauch of Caterham's car last year. Not because it was the first one, but because it redefined the word 'ugly' and everyone was about to follow suit (apart from Macca of course). Damn those step-noses!

Yeah, Caterham do that because the first F1 team to unveil their car will get a boost in publicity, but if they waited until after one of the big teams no one would be interested.

Although, I fully expect everyone apart from McLaren and Ferrari will do web only unveilings or unveil them at the first test. The days of the teams launching their cars by shutting down a whole city centre at night and getting the cars to do laps under flood lights has long since passed.

Remember the Spice Girls helping launch McLaren's 1997 car?

I also remember the lauch of Caterham's car last year. Not because it was the first one, but because it redefined the word 'ugly' and everyone was about to follow suit (apart from Macca of course). Damn those step-noses!

Funny, the only recent launch that I can remember is Caterham too. I stared at F1 Racing in disbelief at the horror of it all.

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I remember seeing the Caterham unveiled and thinking "I like the yellow Renault stripe at the back, the colours are really-OH F***ING SWEET JESUS WHAT HAPPENED AT THE FRONT?!?"

Then the others started coming out and I began to weep for the former beauty of F1. Then I heard Red Bull saying they had an elegant solution, had high hopes, and was ultimately left to think "Oh look, the paint job is still uninspiring, and joy, the nose is still ugly."

But... I distinctly remember seeing the Lotus and thinking it still looked good despite the nose, they had come up with an elegant solution. Still not beautiful, but certainly a looker amongst a pack of rejects from the ugly gang.

And then... McLaren unveiled their car, and I was delighted that I supported the beautiful team.

Looking forward to this year's unveilings, I get excited

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Yeah, Caterham do that because the first F1 team to unveil their car will get a boost in publicity, but if they waited until after one of the big teams no one would be interested.

Although, I fully expect everyone apart from McLaren and Ferrari will do web only unveilings or unveil them at the first test. The days of the teams launching their cars by shutting down a whole city centre at night and getting the cars to do laps under flood lights has long since passed.

Remember the Spice Girls helping launch McLaren's 1997 car?

I also remember the lauch of Caterham's car last year. Not because it was the first one, but because it redefined the word 'ugly' and everyone was about to follow suit (apart from Macca of course). Damn those step-noses!

Car launches used to be amazing, in the mid=late 90's and early 00's. I remember the Jordan being unveiled in London and the Mclaren being launched by the spice girls and benetton's being launched in style. none of this pulling the covers off at a test rubbish.

Car launches used to be amazing, in the mid=late 90's and early 00's. I remember the Jordan being unveiled in London and the Mclaren being launched by the spice girls and benetton's being launched in style. none of this pulling the covers off at a test rubbish.

Car launches used to be amazing, in the mid=late 90's and early 00's. I remember the Jordan being unveiled in London and the Mclaren being launched by the spice girls and benetton's being launched in style. none of this pulling the covers off at a test rubbish.

I miss that

I kept being reminded of this every year come the launches. I really miss that era for the show it could provide. Now everything seems subdued.